Metallic building.



W. W. TAYLOR.

METALLIC BUILDING.

APPLICATION FILED NOV, I2, 1913.

2 SHEETSSHEET I. 1% 2 c I /jJ Patented May 25, 1915.

l/IlI/EA/TOH WITNESSES W. W. TAYLOR.

METALLIC BUILDING.

o t N T I A Patented May 25,1915.

1 9 1 W/T/VSSES i r n? W A r r it tnt li lltl EZEW JERSEY,

METALLIG BUILEENG,

original application filed march it, 1913, Serial No.

{specification of Letters 'Eatent.

lPatentecl May 25, 1915,

754,218. Divided and this application filed November is, 1913. Serial no. scones.

To all whom it may concern Be it lmow'n that l, 'WiLLIAM W. TAYLOR, a citizen or the United States, and a resident of Montclair, in. the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Metallic Building, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description,

My invention relates to metallic buildings adapted to be shipped in knocked-down form, and more particularly the invention relates to a building especially adapted for use as a garage.

The present application is a division of an application filed by me March it, 1913, Serial No. 754,216, and is based on the novel features pertaining to means for supporting the roof of the structure, and to the roofing lates and siding plates formed to co-act the novel roof-supporting means.

The invention will be particularly explained in the specific description following.

Reference is to be had to the accompanydrawings forming a part of this specifinee indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section showing a portion of a building embodying my. invention; Fig, 2 is a detail vertical cross section on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig. is a detail horizontal section on a larger ng a joint the siding plates 1g. i is a plan view, the roof; structure omitted. forming the building parts in accordwith the invention, 1 may employ for o base angle bars lo which, in practice, :er the building is erected, are covered with the cement floori 11, @n. the several angle bars the b e siding plates 12 are placed, which are ted to receive rootplates 3. to carry the roofing sheets c. so formed to disro at er predetermined ter described, is and cation, in which similar characters or referthe lower edge of each siding plate twice on itself, as at 1%, 12 the return-bends being spaced and flaring downwardly to have a wedging fit over the member 10 which in practice, tapers upwardly. The siding plates and their return-bends, as well as the members 10 of the base, are orificed to receive bolts 17 having securing nuts 18.

The vertical edges of the siding plates 12 are preferably formed with joints, each presenting a vertical rib 19 at the outside and an inner vertical rib 20, the ribs being disposed at an angle normal to the plane of the siding plates, or approximately so. To pro duce the joints with the indicated ribs one edge of each plate is flanged in one direction at a right angle, then returned in the opposite direction to cross the joint to the'opposite side and again returned in the plane of the initial flange at the opposite side of the plate, While the opposite end of the plate is channeled to receive the described bends on the opposite edge of the adjacent plate; thus, the plate at one edge is first bent outwardly at right angles, as at 12, then returned as at 12 close against the portion 12, the return-bend extending across the joint transacting the plane of the plate, and again returned, as at 12, the extreme edge terminating close against the inner side of.the plate, or side opposite that on which the initial bend is formed. Thus double thicknesses are presented in the form of inner and outer ribs integral with each other and lying close against each other, the one thickness extending in unbroken continuity between. the ribs and being common to the two. The opposite edge of the plate is bent inwardly as at 12", and then returrrbent, as at lZ said bends being spaced to provide a channel to receive the inner bends of the companion plate, The joint is completed by bolts 21 having nuts 22, the bolts extending transversely to the seve al members constituting the inner rib vertical joints and ribs as i claimed in the present e rooft siding plates 12, between adjacent inner ribs 20, 20. The bodyof the'plate 13 is inclined downwardly from the inner channeled end to receive the roofing plates or sheets 14 and determine the pitch thereof, as well as to serve in so locating the roofing plates that all will have a proper alinement. At the outer overhanging ends the connection between the roofing sheets and the supporting plates 14 can be effected by any approved means, such as screw bolts 23 and nuts 24. The holes 13 in plate 13 for receiving the bolts 23 are shown best in Fig. 4.

The roofing plates or sheets are formed with inner and outer ribs 14, 14 at the joints, similarly to those described in connection with the siding 'platcs, there being a difference, however, that the final bend of the outer rib terminates at the under side, that is to say, the inner. side as compared with the siding plates; in order to better exclude the rain; thus one side edge of a roofing plate is first bent downwardly as at 14 and return-bent as at 14 said return-bend being continued across the plane of the roofing plate to the under side, and returnbent on itself as at 14 to form the inner rib.

The described bends at the upper side are received in a channel presented by the opposite edge of the adjacent plate, the channel being produced by bending the edge of the plate first upwardly, as at 14, and'then downwardly as at 14 the said bends being spaced apart to receive the-mating bends on the opposite plate. The under ribs 14 are cut away to provide recesses or openings 14 that receive the supporting plates 13 and permit the roofing plates to fit over said supporting plates. Desirably the outer edges of the supporting plates are formed with down-turned flanges 13 to strengthen the same and provide a better contact surface with the adjacent portions of the under rib of the roofing plates.

The ridge 15 in the illustrated example has a core 15 in the form of an angle bar disposed with its apex uppermost, and around said core is bent a sheet of plate metal which follows approximately the, general angular formation of the core 15*,and is then extended outwardly, as at 15", and then return-bent to provide lateral, approximately horizontal wings or flanges 15". From the wings 15, the opposite sides of the plate are brought against the core 15 and then continued upwardly, and so formed as to provide a vertical rib 15, the one side being returned in a downward direction as at 15 over upwardly extending terminalsi15 of the other side. Bolts 26 provided with nuts 27 extend transversely through theseveral members of the vertical rib 15.

The roofing plate 16 is placed over the ridge and inclines downwardly from the peak of the roof over the upper ends of the roofing plates 14. At the lower ends the cover 16 is bent downwardly at substantially a right angle, as at 16 to contact with the outer surface of the roofing sheets and again bent at approximately a right angle to provide securing feet 16', bolts 25 and nuts 25 or equivalent means being employed to secure the said feet to the roofing plates.

It will thus be seen that since the body of the cover 16 rests on the outer ribs 14*, a space is produced between the cover and the bodies of the roofing plates 14, and the space is open at the upper end between the roofing plates and the ridge and communicates with the spaces between the under ribs 14 at the under side of the roofing plates, so that if there be holes 16 formed in the down-turned portions 16 of the cover 16, there may be a circulation of air upward from the interior of the building between the under ribs 14*, around the upper ends.

of the roofing plates, and outward beneath the cover 16 through the holes 16.

It is to be understood that the illustrated ridge and its appurtenances are not claimed in the present application.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. In a metallic building, siding plates joined at their vertical edges, the joints presenting inner vertical ribs, the upper ends of the siding plates being inturned between the said vertical ribs presenting inwardly extending flanges, a roof-supporting plate extending along the tops of the siding plates, crossing the joints thereof, and'returned on itself at the inner edge of the plate, presenting an outwardly disposed hook formation between adjacent vertical ribs and fitting over the inwardly extending flanges on thesidin plates, said roof-supporting plate inclining downwardly at an angle to the vertical at the outside of the siding plates, and roofing plates resting on and secured to the inclined portion of the said supporting plates.

2-. In a metallic building, siding plates joined at theirvertical edges, the joints presenting inner and outer vertical ribs, the outer ribs terminating at the upper ends short of the top of the siding plates, the upper ends of the said siding plates being inturned presenting inwardly extending flanges between the inner vertical ribs, a'

um er supporting plates, the outer portions of the name to this specification in the presence of ribs of the receiving plai ii e presmting at ths two subscribing Witnesses. said cut away portions ont e ges outwar a from the roof-supporting plate and abutting WILL TAYLOR 5 the latter to aline the respective roofing Witnesses:

plates. J. L. MCAULIFFE,

In testimony whereof I have signed my PHILIP D. lRoLLHAUs. 

